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...intended as an act of generosity. The Church World Service, a branch of the National Council of Churches, wanted to help Southern farmers still suffering from last summer's drought. So the group has shipped nearly 6 million lbs. of corn seed to about 5,000 cash-strapped farmers in eight states...
...Yeutter announced last week that the Administration was prepared to slam the door by Jan. 30 on more than $400 million worth of West European imports, including Italian white wine, French cognac and British gin. The Europeans came right back with threatened new barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions in international trade." In Paris, a French trade minister warned that Europe would respond "eye for eye, tooth for tooth." He also accused the U.S. of "choosing the Rambo method" for resolving the issue...
...origins of the European trade dispute go back a year, to the entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Community. With that move, Spain embraced highly protectionist E.C. farm policies that included prohibitive levies of up to 200% on U.S. corn and sorghum exports. The action effectively closed those Spanish markets, worth an estimated $400 million to American farmers. Under the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a 92-member treaty, Washington demanded compensatory access to overall E.C. markets for the same goods. The Europeans recognized the U.S. right to compensation, but then refused to take...
Does that sound like the Stephen King of the supermarket rack? The man behind Maximum Overdrive, behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
...could have used a Kansan like Mary Elizabeth Lease, a Populist of a century ago who galvanized the nation by exhorting angry farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." The slogan was ready-made this year for Iowa and Illinois, surfeited with corn by farmers who "farm the Government." No takers...